Two resignation letters, one theme: Johnson must go
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It can only be described as a damning judgment. “I can, no longer, in good conscience, continue serving in this government. I am instinctively a team player, but the British people rightly expect integrity from their ...
Finally, Boris Johnson’s ministers have had enough of defending the monstrously indefensible
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What took them so long? The chancellor and the health secretary have gone. Others may have jumped before the ink is dry on this, kicking themselves for not taking the lead as this cabinet of accomplices finally calcul...
The Guardian view on the cabinet resignations: endgame for Boris Johnson
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The prime minister’s dissembling, his taste for obfuscation and self-serving half-truths, and his willingness to mislead are by now sadly familiar. To that extent, it came as no surprise on Tuesday to learn that Boris...
Boris Johnson limps on for now but for how much longer?
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It was the blow to Boris Johnson that every one of his backbench critics had been waiting for. Sajid Javid, the health secretary, followed shortly by Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, posted their letters of resignation on...
Sorry to break it to you, Dominic Raab – but Boris Johnson is NOT your friend
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Watching Dominic Raab react to Simon McDonald’s bombshell letter live on air this morning was like watching a character in a movie discover he’s been dead all along. Even as the secretary of state for justice was tour...
MPs give Boris Johnson a soft landing after his week of summiteering
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Call it the phoney war. All that anyone in Westminster was really thinking about was what the prime minister knew about his former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher, and when he knew it. Over the last few days the No 10...
The Guardian view on Labour’s Brexit: pragmatic not revolutionary politics
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After whipping his MPs to support Boris Johnson’s bad deal, and then taking a vow of silence as a repenting remainer, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has spelled out how he would make Brexit “work”. This is good news. ...
The Pincher furore is another Johnson mess – and ‘pooper scooper’ MPs are tiring
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“Pincher by name, pincher by nature.” If Boris Johnson really did use those sniggering words of the man he then made deputy chief whip regardless, then they must surely now return to haunt him. For those words do some...